Formula 1 motorsport chief Ross Brawn has brushed away suggestions that all F1 cars will look the same when the next edition of the sport's rules come into play in 2021, as he and stakeholders - including drivers - plot the way forward in recent and forthcoming weeks.
During his presentation of the F1 roadmap, heading into the future, Brawn said, "There are complaints that all the cars are going to look the same and the other nonsense we have heard.
"As an exercise, Pat took all the existing cars and took the livery off them and put them up on a wall. You could not tell the difference between the cars we have now once the colours are taken off them.
"You need to be an extreme geek to pick them out, and even within our office, we managed to pick three out! So when you see the existing cars with the colours taken off, you wouldn't know.
"We know with these very prescriptive regulations, the fertile minds of F1 will come up with different solutions. They will be prescriptive because we have to make sure we achieve these objectives, but there is enough latitude there.
"Undoubtedly from the relative freedom that the teams have had so far it is going to be frustrating but if they can take the approach that these regulations are the same for everyone and they will do a better job than anyone else, we just won't be two seconds faster we will be two tenths faster, then that is what we want in F1," affirmed Brawn.
This would be an ideal scenario, addressing the grossly imbalanced playing field where the Big Three teams gobble up the accolades, prize-money and airtime while the Small Seven are fed occasionally crumbs should any fall their way thanks to the failings of the pace-setters.
Big Question: What will be done about these PUs (aka very expensive engines) that only Merc have mastered?
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